Mrs Gaskell and me : two women, two love stories, two centuries apart
Stevens, Nell, 1985-2019
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In 1857, after two years of writing 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte', Elizabeth Gaskell fled England for Rome on the eve of publication. She threw her book out into the world and disappeared to Italy with her two eldest daughters. In Rome she found excitement, inspiration, and love: a group of artists and writers who would become lifelong friends, and a man - Charles Norton - who would become the love of Mrs Gaskell's life, though they would never be together. In 2013, Nell Stevens is embarking on her Ph.D. - about the community of artists and writers living in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century - and falling drastically in love with a man who lives in another city. As Nell chases her heart around the world, and as Mrs Gaskell forms the greatest connection of her life, these two women, though centuries apart, are drawn together.
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Author:
Stevens, Nell, 1985-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
275 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781509868216 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.8
Language:
English
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BRN:
1940511